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Millions sign Google's anti-SOPA petition

Google's infographic on the fight against SOPA. Google's homepage today shows a thick black censorship stamp across its colorful logo. And, if clicked on, it leads users to a  "End Piracy, Not Liberty" petition  that asks people to sign-on to protest the  two anti-piracy laws  to be voted on by Senate and Congress. "Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S.," the petition reads. "Sign this petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late." Over the course of the day, millions of people signed onto Google's petition. "The last number we released was at 4:30pm ET," said Google spokesperson Christine Chen. "At that point we were at 4.5 million signatories and counting." This search-giant is showing that it is in lock step with hundreds of other individuals, groups, and Web sites that either sent out their ...

Millions seeing 'Stop SOPA' message on Twitter

                                   It may be a small bit of protest--literally--but thousands of people have been turning to Twitter to urge their followers to help defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act. All over Twitter these days, you can find people who have plastered a "Stop SOPA" banner across their profile images. As of this writing, more than 14,000 users have added the banner, and according to the  #BlackoutSOPA  Web site, those users are reaching nearly 24.6 million followers. Twitter profile images have long been a place to express a protest message. Thousands are using their images to urge Congress not to pass the Stop Online Piracy Act. To be sure, there's a lot of energy out there on the Internet these days to defeat SOPA. The news site  Reddit has committed to going silent for 12 hours on January 18 , and the Internet meme factory Cheezburger Network has done the same. A...